Financial Inequality
This SDG is related to economic inequality, and had 4 years of progress erased during the pandemic globally.
SDG 1: End Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere
Which SDG focuses on taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impact?
#13: Climate Action
Which SDG seeks to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education, and promote lifelong learning for all?
SDG 4: Quality Education
#3: Good Health and Well-Being
Which SDG tracks partner violence?
#5: Gender Inequality
More than 1 in 4 women 15+ years old have been subjected to partner violence at least once in their lifetime. That is 641 million women globally.
Which SDG focuses on reducing inequality on a global scale?
#10: Reduce Inequality within and Among Countries
Emissions of this gas, tracked under SDG 13 (Climate Action) reached the highest levels ever recorded, with a 6% increase in 2021.
CO2
What global issue has sparked a global learning crisis, with 147 million children missing in-person instruction in 2020-2021?
COVID-19
Which SDG tracks the health of wetlands that humanity relies on for clean drinking water, with over 85% of these wetlands being lost in the last 300 years? (hint: not #14, which is focused on sustainable harvesting of oceans and ecological preservation).
#6: Clean Water and Sanitation
UNA-ASU is engaged in an SDG Ambassador Program with women from these 3 countries as part of an effort to create change in our communities and act as cultural ambassadors?
China, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
The United Nations Association at Arizona State University and the World Academy for the Future of Women are taking measures to enact this change and forge connections in communities around the world. We hope to help our Ambassadors create actionable change in local communities while also providing an outlet for them to be cultural ambassadors through our partnership with the WAFW!
Which SDG tracks child labor worldwide? (Hint: the UN wants to reduce child labor and raise productive and decently compensated adult employment globally as part of this goal).
#8: Promote Sustained, Inclusive, and Sustainable Economic Growth, Full and Productive Employment and Decent Work for All
This SDG is increasingly looking at how to connect people in "slums," which the UN estimates at 1 billion people globally, with the broader cities and economies in which they live, as a way of alleviating poverty (hint: making cities more sustainable includes developing public transit)
#11: Sustainable cities and Communities - Making cities and settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
Conflict (war), COVID, Climate change, and Growing economic inequality have combined to increase the prices food, a key human need, addressed in which SDG About 1/10 people worldwide are suffering from hunger this year.
#2: Zero Hunger.
Nearly 1/3 people lacked regular access to adequate food in 2020.
22.7 million children missed basic vaccines in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 healthcare disruptions. Global life expectancy and global immunization coverage both declined in 2019-2020, and we know that they are *blank* correlated.
Global life expectancy and immunization coverage are positively correlated (when immunization levels rise, we can expect a slight increase in life expectancy globally, and the vice-versa when immunization rates decline).
At the current pace that women are being included in National Political Leadership globally, it would take *blank #* years for men and women to be represented equally.
SDG 10 tracks inequality among countries - people from which country have pushed 2022 to a global refugee record high as a result of conflict?
Ukraine
Agricultural Expansion
The pandemic has caused the first rise in *blank* in a generation. (hint: this is about wealth on a country-level scale, and a works against the goal of reducing global inequality).
The pandemic has caused the first rise in between-country inequality in a generation.
This disease, eliminated in the US for the first time in 1954 through national vaccination campaigns, experienced the first rise in global mortality since 2005 in the last few years (hint: one of the major historical respiratory diseases)
Tuberculosis deaths globally rose from 1.2 million in 2019 to 1.3 million in 2020 (see SDG 3, Good Health and Well-Being, for more info).
On average, women spend about *BLANK* times more on unpaid domestic and care work than men, and their burdens become even heavier because of COVID-19.
On average, women spend about THREE times more on unpaid domestic and care work than men, and their burdens become even heavier because of COVID-19.
SDG 8 (Economic Growth and Decent Work for All) has not progressed much in the last few years because of one or more of these factors:
- New waves of COVID-19
- Rising inflation
- Supply-chain disruptions
- Policy Uncertainties
- Labour Market Challenges
SDG 14 tracks Life Below Water. What are one or more of the reasons our planet's largest ecosystem, our oceans, is under threat?
- Over-fishing
- Plastic/marine pollution
- Ocean Warming
- Acidification
- Eutrophication (chemical runoff, ex: Nitrogen from industrial farming)
Inequality between countries drives people to migrate in search of a better life, and as global inequality increases, climate change casues environmental disasters, and conflict rises in eastern Europe, the global number of people seeking new homes has risen. What term does international law use to refer to these people seeking asylum?
Refugees.
The number of refugees outside their country of origin increased by 44% between 2015 and 2021.
SDG #12 (responsible consumption and production) tracks global food waste. Without looking it up, estimate what percentage of food is being lost in every country every day (global average - not the US figure, which is higher than average).
13.3% of the world's food is lost after harvesting and before reaching retail markets.
What are 1 or more of the global goals of SDG #5 in terms of improving equality and quality of life for women?
SDG 5 aims to, among other goals:
- end all forms of discrimination and violence against all women and girls
- eliminate early marriage and FGM (female genital mutilation)
- ensure women’s full rights in all forms of work and leadership positions